manrheatpr lEupninn Upralh } MANCHESTER. CONN., TUESDAY, APRIL 8.1975 - VOL. XCIV, No. 160 Manchester—A City of Village Charm EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS ,1 * # - •, ■ 0 i l 8 (Herald photos by Pinto) Herman Schendel Mrs. Hugh Swanson William Oleksinski Charles Pillard Roy Johnson Margaret Shainin Raymond Lanzano Joel Janenda {i Sober Crowd Hears Pleas for Budget Restraint -.'fi directed, but urged cuts in the school By SOL R. COHEN there were people speaking for whom it for retaining the $3,000 recommended for ty Sadloski anchoring it as the wrapup paying about $127,000 annually in taxes. budget. One couldn’t help but notice how orderly was a first. painting the Community Y, and only 1 was speaker. “We have to stop allowing for inflation the crowd of about 273 was at Waddell What they were there for was a hearing for approving Weiss’ recommended Representing Raymond F. Damato, in our budget-making,” said Janenda. He said to Weiss, “It seems to me, as School Monday night — as it listened in­ on proposals by Town Manager Robert budgets and tax rates. ' local builder and developer, was “You can’t be conned into the belief the in­ the manager and business head of this tently to 30 speakers expressing pro and Weiss to raise the General Fund tax rate A letter from the Greater Manchester Manchester attorney Joel Janenda. crease would be only a few dollars for town, you should have got your pencil j you’d s;; con opinions about Manchester taxes. by 5.5 mills, the Town Fire District tax Chamber of Commerce was read into the Janenda said, “Mr. Damato has had each taxpayer. That’s how it always sharpened. Increased spending can’t be 9Uitt-Up And, one couldn’t help but notice also rate by 0.80 mills, and sewage charges by record. It requests the present tax be great concern for the budget in the past begins.” done in business and it can’t be done in I JMen's the finistration being felt by most of the 25 per cent. retained and, in light of the present state but never as much concern as now. He’s He said he spoke also for the 600-plus town government.” Of the 30 speakers, several of whom of the economy, a tax increase shouldn’t convinced we’re in worse shape tenants Damato has in his various apart­ crowd — frustration over jobs, prices, the Balilla Pagani, a West Side spoke twice, 21 were for holding the be considered. economically now than a t any time since ment complexes — pwple who would feel future and the threat of increased taxes. businessman, got on his favorite subject— taxline or, as several propose^, even cut­ The hearing started promptly at 8, the Great Depression and the Board of a tax increase in their rents. A public hearing on the manager’s the rec department — and insisted a cut recessed for 10 minutes midway in the ses­ Directors must find a way out.” Burton Pearl, a Main St. businessman, proposed budgets and tax rates is an an­ ting it. could be made in its budget. He urged also Of the 9 who spoke against a cut and for sion, and ended at 10:45. He added, “It’s not so much whether the recommended a 5-mill cut in the present nual event in Manchester and usually a cut in the school budget, claiming in­ adopting the budget proposals, 5 were for The Manchester Property Owners board can hold the line as it is how much tax rate instead of Weiss’ recommended A draws the same people and the same can it cut.” 5.5-mill increase. creases ,go for administrators’ salaries speakers. replacing the $118,400 Weiss cut from the Association (MPOA) fielded a team of and not for the good of the school children. Monday night’s hearing was different. school budget, 2 were for restoring the $8,- eight speakers to oppose a tax increase, Janenda pointed out Damato and his He backed'the police and fire depart­ There were many people attending their 000 Weiss cut from the Manchester Public with MPOA president Charles Pillard several enterprises constitute ment budgets as recommended, noting first pwlic hearing. Even more noticeable, Health Nurse Association request, 1 was leading off and MPOA vice president Bet- Manchester’s fifth highest taxpayer — that’s where the town’s efforts should be (See Page Eighteen) p Lawyer Says Judiciary Inside Today Pilot, Irked at Retreat, Jm Dear Abby ........................ ... Page 11 Betty’s Notebook............ ... Page 11 Makes Rules in Secret Business news.................. ___Page 9 Yost pennant Picks........ ... Page 12 ... Page 12 Bombs Thieu’s Palace HARTFORD (UPI) - The judicial Mrotek said the operation of the MCC nine w ins................ branch of state government has conducted judiciary department clearly violated Girls track........................ ... Page 14 SAIGON (UPI) - A young South Viet­ on the capital and airborne troops were munist territory and defected although his its administrative business and written its Connecticut’s right-to-know law which Trackmen ready............ ... Page 14 » a w fR * ^ namese air force pilot returning from a placed on a special alert. whereabouts remained a mystery tonight. rules in secret, it was charged today. requires public access to meetings and Area Profile ................Pages 5, 8, 9 r c o u H t $ combat mission bombed President The sources said Trung’s family was According to a document c e r tif y by documents, with certain limitations. The curfew was lifted after six tense Nguyen Van Thieu’s presidential palace from the Da Nang area captured by the a n ^ ^ i Harry Hammer, deputy secretary of the In his certification. Hammer said: hours during which Saigon resembled a today in an apparent rage against ’Thieu’s Communists 10 days ago and that he was Non«8iip' state, the judiciary has conducted its “A careful examination of the files of The Herald “Ad C r a f t” ghost town. decision to give up much of South Vietnam furious over Thieu’s tactics of abandoning to«). S lu r^ , ■' business outside of public scrutiny since this office fails to reveal that any board, advertising contest section Rumors immediately linked Gen. ^ e s 11-2.. without a fight. the northern and central quarters of the the state’s right-to-know law went into commission, agency, bureau, committee scheduled to appear today Nguyen Cao Ky, former premier and air country to the Communists without a Thieu and his family escaped unhurt but effect. or any other body of the judiciary branch will appear Thursday. force commander with the plot, but Ky fight. Attorney Ryszard Mrotek of Hartford, of government of the State of Connecticut at least three other persons were killed was quick to deny responsibility. He did The bombing attack was reminiscent of who sought the information, told UPI the has filed a schedule of regular meetings, and four wounded. say in a statement issued through his of­ a similar bombing attack by two South judiciary was conducting its business and notice of special meetings, records of Thieu called the bombing an isolated at­ fice that Thieu should step down for the Vietnamese air force pilots in February, writing rules and regulations governing votes of the members upon issues before tack aimed at killing him and said it was good of the country. 1962. Their Skyraiders inflicted heavy the practice of law and justice without the comlnittee, records of votes to go into Town Directors not an attempted military coup. He vowed Military sources said the pilot. North damage on Independence Palace, but they public knowledge. executive session, or records of minutes of To Reconvene to stay in office. Vietnamese-born Lt. Nguyen TThanh failed in their efforts to kill President Ngo Mrotek planned to detail the allegations the sessions, whether executive or open.” Authorities fearful that it was an Trung, 26, may have landed his F5 Dinh Diem, later overthrown and at a pubUc hearing today on proposed Connecticut’s right-to-know statute was The Manchester Board of Directors will attempted coup imposed a 24 hour curfew Freedom Fighter somewhere in Com­ assassinated. revisions to Connecticut’s right to know put on the books in 1957 and revised 10 pick up, tonight where it left off last law. years later. Tuesday — when it recessed without “The entire administration of the state Under the statute, agencies submit taking action on any of its agenda items. judiciary is performed in secret,’’ Mrotek notices of their meeting schedule to the Tonight, it is expected to take action on said in an interview. “An entire one-third secretary of state. most of the old business and new business of the government is not complying with Among the agencies of the judiciary Ford Shifting Viet Fund Quest items and table others. the law,’’ he said. failing to comply with the state’s right to “Rules are written in secret, all of the ,know law, he said, were the Conunission Its regular meeting is at 8 in the rules and regulations are drafted in on Official Legal Publications, the Municipal Building Hearing Room. At 7, it secret, all proceedings of the entire Judicial Review Council, the Bar will meet with the Eighth District board of To Bid for Humanitarian Aid judiciary department are conducted Examining Committee, the Standing Com­ directors — in an attempt to resolve behind closed doors,” he said. mittees on Recommendations for Ad­ differences over the formula used by the WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Ford Edward M. Kennedy’s subcommittee on humanitarian groups. His purpose was to “Worse yet, the existence of most of the missions, Grievance Committees and the town in billing the district for sewage is playing down his proposal for more aid refugees for $100 million for the homeless rally support for going far beyond Presi­ committees of the judiciary is not even Rules Committee, he said.